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Blinded By the Light
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview BLINDED BY THE LIGHT – Co-writer/director Gurinder Chadha (“Bend It Like Beckham”) I’ve always said I’m not a fan of Bruce Springsteen’s music. I think growing up in the 80’s I just felt like a white, blue collar icon wasn’t about me, so I didn’t pay much attention to his songs; although, you’d have to have been living under a pop-culture rock not to have seen a pre-Friends, short locks, Courtney Cox being pulled up on stage by “The Boss” for the “Dancing in the Dark” music video. But now, like the previous movie musicals of 2019 “Yesterday”, which celebrates the music of the Beatles and…
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THE KITCHEN
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I lightly had THE KITCHEN on my radar, thought it was going to be a female driven mob comedy, mainly because of the casting of Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish who seemed like they could be comedy gold together. But also, I felt the posters and advertising gave me a Charlie’s Angels feeling rather than The Sopranos. The set up of the movie happens quickly, in a comedy this is a good thing, in a gritty crime drama, you want more texture and details. I felt I needed to live longer with these women before I believed they can suddenly take over Hell’s Kitchen. …
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Landmark Filmmaker Letter – THE NIGHTINGALE
Writer/Director Jennifer Kent It was not easy to consider taking on a story that was essentially a shared narrative between a white woman and an Aboriginal man. I knew from the get go if I was going to take it on, I needed to collaborate with Tasmanian Aboriginal people or it wouldn’t happen. This is what led me to Tasmanian Aboriginal elder uncle Jim Everett. Working with Jim on The Nightingale was one of the most profound experiences of my life. Jim is a highly respected author, poet and storyteller in his own right. He’s been a political activist for many decades, a natural leader who has worked tirelessly to…
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LeAnne Lindsay, Tinsel & Tine Joins The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle
The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) is an organization of dedicated and talented film critics from Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs.
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AAMP: Diasporic Body: Jesus & Egun (Performance 1)
On Sunday, August 18th, in conjunction with Fahamu Pecou’s DO OR DIE: AFFECT, RITUAL, RESISTANCE, AAMP presents an afternoon performance of the New York Dance and Performance | Bessie Award nominated work Plight Release and the Diasporic Body: Jesus & Egun by Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround. Together, these works speak to the diverse ways in which Yoruba rooted artistic, cultural, and spiritual practices are being expressed in the U.S. black folk life.Plight Release & the Diasporic Body is a series of works that bask in blackness as everyday diasporic phenomena and traverses, through the body and movement, what a diasporic orientation offers us as a guide towards individual and…
